Wellerman: Viral TikTok sea shanty is heading for this week's Official Singles Chart
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officialcharts.comUnless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you'll be aware that sea shanties are the latest global music trend sparked by TikTok.
The movement has been gathering pace over the past few months but went stratospheric at the end of last year when 26-year-old postman and musician Nathan Evans, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, posted a video of himself on TikTok performing popular sea shanty Wellerman.
Within days, shanties had overtaken the social media platform and become a global online obsession, known as ShantyTok, with people posting their own sea shanties and memes.
The movement is now sending the song that started it all into the mainstream; a recording of Wellerman by Bristonian band The Longest Johns is
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